RLSD Facilities & Maintenance

Rib Lake has a three-building campus; pK - 5th students attend Rib Lake Elementary School, 6th - 8th grade students attend Rib Lake Middle School and 9th - 12th grade students attend Rib Lake High School. All facilities are owned and operated by the Rib Lake School District, located in a rural area with students coming from 7 municipalities within Taylor and Price counties.

The three district buildings house approximately 480 students, while providing access to a comprehensive and rigorous program of course offerings. Additionally, the district has a school forest located 5 miles north of town off of county highway D.

In the spring of 2015, the community supported a $4 million referendum to upgrade school facilities. The Board of Education approved $3.3 million in spending to upgrade HVAC, plumbing, and roofs while improving building envelopes and electrical. In addition, many windows were replaced across the district as well as the installation of a new biomass boiler. Over the summer and fall of 2015, the projects were completed.

As part of an ongoing process to maintain building facilities, the Board appointed a Buildings and Grounds oversight committee who monitored the 2015 projects. The committee also worked with ICS Consulting, Inc. to develop a Long-Term Capital Improvement Plan. The objective of this 10 year facility asset plan is to provide essential information for the District to use in planning for short and long-term building needs, quantifying costs and budget impacts, and identifying strategic methods of funding. The key factors that that drove decision-making for this plan included:

Life Cycle Models for major building components and systems

Quantification of Unfunded Liabilities associated with building needs

Current and forecasted Facility Condition Index (FCI)

Prioritized needs and opportunities

The Board of Education approved this plan in December, 2015. Click here for plan details.